EY partner Matthew Benson (below left) has taken over as chairman of the advisory panel of the Corporate Finance Faculty’s Middle East network. He has taken over from Sanjay Vig (right), managing director at Alpen Capital, having been deputy chairman since 2014, after he moved from Dubai with EY.

Dale Murray CBE told more than 200 guests at the Corporate Finance Faculty’s annual reception, held at the Institute of Directors on Pall Mall: “Failure is highly overrated. I had many opportunities to fail, but I was very lucky that I did not grasp them all”